Google’s bringing Gemini to your car with Android Auto

Google is bringing Gemini, its generative AI, to all cars that support Android Auto in the next few months, the company announced at its Android Show ahead of the company’s 2025 I/O developer conference. The company says adding Gemini functionality to Android Auto and, later this year, to cars that run Google’s built-in operating system, will make driving “more productive — and fun” in the blog post. “This is really going to be, we think, one of the largest transformations in the in-vehicle experience that we’ve seen in a very, very long time,” Patrick Brady, the VP of Android for Cars, said during a virtual briefing with members of the media ahead of the conference. Gemini will surface in the Android Auto experience in two main ways. Gemini will act as a much more powerful smart voice assistant. Drivers (or passengers — Brady said they are not voice-matching to whoever owns the phone running the Android Auto experience) will be able to ask Gemini to send texts, play music, and bas ... Read full article.